SOURCE: Lachterman, David R. “The Conquest of Nature and the Ambivalence of Man in the French Enlightenment: Reflections on Condorcet's Fragment Sur L'Atlantide.” In Man, God, and Nature in the Enlightenment, edited by Donald C. Mell, Jr. et al., pp. 19-27. Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1988.
In this essay, Lachterman discusses Condorcet's Fragment in terms of the conflict between technological progress—“the conquest of nature”—and individual liberty.
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